- Test your knowledge retention with virtual quizzes.
- See how your newly acquired skills will help you make a positive impact for Latino children with special health care needs and their parents.
Challenge
Special health care needs are mild to severe chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions such as arthritis; diabetes; epilepsy; asthma; cerebral palsy; brain injury; hearing, vision, or speech problems; anxiety; autism; and learning and intellectual disabilities. Children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) are at major risk of poor academic and psychosocial outcomes. Legally mandated school supports can improve their outcomes, but low-income Latino parents may face linguistic and cultural barriers to access health care and school services.
Approach
Puentes will be an online professional development course for promotores de salud. Puentes-trained promotores will have the knowledge and skills to empower Latino parents of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) navigate the health care and school system to secure educational accommodations for their CSHCN. The six-module online course, which will use text, video clips, and virtual client interactive training, will be reviewed by expert panels, rigorously tested, evaluated in an experimental design, and backed by a strategic commercialization plan. Puentes is soundly based on a reasoned action approach that drives motivation to engage in capacity building for community outreach for CSHCN’s educational accommodations.
Example Curriculum
- Lesson 1 Introduction (3:30)
- Topic 1.1 How special health care needs affect children's health, academic success, and social skills (14:39)
- Topic 1.2 What are the linguistic, cultural, and environmental challenges that Latino parents of children with special health care needs face? (14:23)
- Topic 1.3 Practice Activity
- Quiz Lesson 1
- Lesson 2 Introduction (10:44)
- Topic 2.1 The role of health care and social service providers (3:06)
- Topic 2.2 Parents’ rights and responsibilities as advocates for their children in the health care and social service setting (4:41)
- Topic 2.3 Communicating and sharing health information between health care providers and the child’s school (7:04)
- Topic 2.4 Access to health care resources and insurance (4:42)
- Topic 2.5 Practice Activity
- Quiz Lesson 2
- Lesson 3 Introduction (5:22)
- Topic 3.1 What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act (2:50)
- Topic 3.2 Determining eligibility and securing educational accommodations under IDEA (4:35)
- Topic 3.3 What is included in an Individualized Education Plan? (2:06)
- Topic 3.4 What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973? (8:47)
- Topic 3.5 Whare are parents' rights under IDEA and Section 504? (4:20)
- Topic 3.6 What are parents’ responsibilities under IDEA and Section 504? (7:22)
- Topic 3.7 How can promotores support parents of children with special health care needs request and maintain accommodations? (4:38)
- Topic 3.8 Practice Activity
- Quiz Lesson 3
- Lesson 4 Introduction (8:20)
- Topic 4.1 Strategies to help parents communicate effectively (3:29)
- Topic 4.2 Educational accommodations for children with special health care needs (7:51)
- Topic 4.3 Evaluating educational accommodations for children with special health care needs (7:55)
- Topic 4.4 Ways you may support parents to improve their child’s social needs and outcomes (5:49)
- Topic 4.5 Practice Activity
- Quiz Lesson 4